Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Celebrate Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson During The Big Read

Saturday, March 15, 2014 – Friday, May 2, 2014

Local CommunitiesThe Big Read takes place in Germantown, Kingston, Red Hook, Rhinecliff, and Tivoli, and will focus on Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. Activities will take place from March 15 to May 2, 2014.

Events are planned throughout the Hudson Valley at businesses, libraries, schools, and homes with community events, performances, talks, and book groups. Book clubs are encouraged to participate.

The Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) managed by Arts Midwest, is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. Bard College is one of 77 nonprofit organizations to receive a grant to host a Big Read project this academic year.

Deviance Credits

Thursday, May 1, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Thursday, May 1, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Thursday, May 1, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science, Technology, and Society Concentration (STS)

Lunchtime meeting on the STS program

Thursday, May 1, 201411:50 am – 1 pm

Kline, College RoomPlease join us if you are interested in adding the STS concentration to your principle course affiliation or want to talk about wider campus projects that might interrelate with STS.Sponsored by: Science, Technology, and Society Program.

Thursday, May 1, 201412 pm

Paul McMahon: Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price Spikes, and the World Food Crisis

Thursday, May 1, 20145 pm

Olin, Room 101Paul McMahon's new book, Feeding Frenzy, traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a world food crisis. The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing countries are banning exports even if this means starving their neighbors. Governments and corporations are scrambling to secure control of food supply chains. Powerful groups from the Middle East and Asia are acquiring farmland in poor countries to grow food for export — what some call land grabs. This raises some big questions. Can we continue to feed a burgeoning population? Are we running out of land and water? Can we rely on free markets to provide? His book reveals trends that could lead to more hunger and conflict. But Paul McMahon also outlines actions that can be taken to shape a sustainable and just food system.

Paul McMahon, who holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, has authored reports on sustainable food systems as an advisor to The Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit and to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. He cofounded SLM Partners, a business that invests in sustainable agriculture in Australia and across the world. He lives in London.Sponsored by: Environmental and Urban Studies Program.

TIME CHANGE: Through the Syrian Looking-Glass

Optics, Politics and Surveillance in Samar Yazbek's In Her Mirrors and Rosa Yasin Hasan's Rough Draft

Thursday, May 1, 20146–7:30 pm

Olin, Room 102

Please note: The end time is now 7:30 rather than 9pm

A lecture by special guest Max WEISS (Princeton)

Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian Baʿthist rule. This talk explores two recent Arabic novels--In Her Mirrors by Samar Yazbek and Rough Draft by Roza Yassin Hassan--that shed unique light on Syrian cultural politics. In addition to offering a close reading of both texts, I argue that by attending to representations of vision, surveillance and the political in novels—specifically the structure and function of mirrors and screens, eavesdropping and surveillance—literary critics, historians and political scientists may gain important insight into key (albeit under-appreciated) aspects of Syrian culture.

Deviance Credits

Friday, May 2, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Friday, May 2, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Friday, May 2, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Economic Seminar Series

Friday, May 2, 20143 pm

Hegeman 102

DETERMINANTS OF IMMIGRATION HOMEOWNERSHIP: EXAMINING THEIR CHANGING ROLE DURING THE GREAT RECESSION AND BEYOND

By Kusum MundraRutgers University Newark

The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is a great deal of evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less severely affected than natives. This paper investigates factors that reduced the vulnerability of immigrants in the face of the economic crisis and increased the likelihood of homeownership. Specifically, it examines the extent to which birthplace networks, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affected the probability of homeownership before the recession and the extent to which these impacts changed since the recession. Using data from Current Population Survey for the years 2000 – 2012, we find that birthplace networks have a significant influence on homeownership and the importance of the factor has increased since the onset of recession. Moreover, the impact of birthplace networks on homeownership is stronger for citizens and immigrants who have not arrived recently. We also find a decline in the impact of saving and length of stay on the probability of homeownership during 2007-2012 compared to earlier years. In contrast, we find an increase in the impact of being a citizen on immigrant homeownership during this period.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kusum Mundra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University Newark. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. from Delhi School of Economics. Her research interests lie in issues of immigration, gender, terrorism and conflict, and econometrics. She has worked on issues ranging from the effect of immigrant networks and immigrant diasporas on trade, role of social networks on immigrant earnings, access to healthcare for immigrant women, empirical investigation of suicide bombing events and semiparametric panel data estimation. Her current research includes gender pay gap in the U.S., immigrant housing in the U.S. and Spain, role of immigrant networks in conflict, immigrant assimilation and trade creation, and nonparametric panel data estimation. Her research has been published in major economics journals including the American Economic Review, Demography, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inferences, and the Frontiers of Economics and Globalization – Migration and Culture.

This talk is part of the ongoing Economics seminar series, which is dedicated to furthering the exchange of economic ideas in the greater Bard community.

Non-degree recital: Alessandro Cirafici, oboe

Friday, May 2, 20144:30 pm

Bard Fiction Prize Winners Benjamin Hale and Bennett Sims Read from Their Work in Conjunctions

Friday, May 2, 20147–8 pm

Oblong Books, Rhinebeck“Benjamin Hale’s exuberant début, [The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore], is the bildungsroman of Bruno, a chimp ... who forsakes his animalhood. [The author’s] relish for his subject, and his subject’s relish for language, never flags.” —New Yorker

“Conjunctions is one of the very best literary magazines in North America. If you like good reading that’s also provocative and original, naturally you would be reading Conjunctions.” —Joyce Carol OatesSponsored by: Conjunctions.

Degree Recital: Sabrina Tabby, violin

with Erika Allen, piano

Friday, May 2, 20148 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingViolinist Sabrina Tabby, from Philadelphia began violin at age 6 in addition to piano and ballet lessons. She developed a fondness for chamber music at a very young age, playing regularly with her twin sister, a cellist. In high school, she was featured on National Public Radio’s From the Top radio series and television show from Carnegie Hall. Now in her final year as a student at Bard College Conservatory in Laurie Smukler’s studio, Sabrina has enjoyed performing as concertmaster of the Conservatory Orchestra, in string quartets and piano trios, as well as in the baroque and new music ensembles. Winner of the 2012-2013 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, Sabrina will perform with orchestra in the fall. She has had opportunities to perform across four continents, most recently traveling to China with the Bard Music Festival Summer 2012 Tour, to Venezuela to teach and perform at the first annual Festival de Música de Colón, and in January 2013 she performed on the Bard Conservatory Central European Chamber Music Tour. A founding member of the new music ensemble, Contemporaneous, she is prominently featured on Innova Recordings album “Stream of Stars: Music of Dylan Mattingly”, released in 2012, and performed David Bloom’s concerto written for her with American Symphony Orchestra this past May. In addition to her violin performance degree, Sabrina is working towards a Bachelors degree in French studies and spent the fall semester 2012 abroad studying at La Sorbonne in Paris.For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Deviance Credits

Saturday, May 3, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Saturday, May 3, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Saturday, May 3, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Deviance Credits

Sunday, May 4, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, May 4, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, May 4, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Monday, May 5, 20143–4 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1The thematic group exhibition in contemporary art is a genre that is problematic in several respects, symptomatic of current processes of institutionalization, their clinical neo-positivisms, and capitalist frontiers of interest; but also exemplary of the agency of frames and of framing. Yet beyond its pitfalls, what is the perhaps unique potential of the genre? In this talk, I suggest to recruit the thematic exhibition as a genre in its own right, conceived as “dialectical laboratory” interrogating media-conditions their corresponding imaginaries. The medium of the exhibition is uniquely suited to engage the dialectics between power and subjectivation/objectification, between a-subjective processes and individual agency, between the symptom and aesthetic sovereignty. An exhibition can be conceived as an exemplary, model-like spatialisation of borderlines, conceptual, political and even ontological, and transform such lines of divisions into image-spaces, in which the choice they impose is suspended, made explicit, historicised and “de-monstrated”. This means to abandon formalist art histories and artists subjectivities as primary discourse of legitimisation, in favour of an analytical approach to historical conditions of appearance, and in favour of a Bakhtinian aesthetic dialogism, which unearths reified, sedimented or implicated forms as interpellations. In such “dialectical laboratories” the visitor is recruited as the “meridian” at the tipping point of reciprocities and inversions, situated within a “Kippfigur” at the hinge between figures and grounds.

This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Pre-ambulation and Retrospection.

Textiles that Talk: East African Textiles and their Meaning

Tuesday, May 6, 20147–9 pm

Hegeman Third FloorPlease join us for Food and Drink this Tuesday 6 May at 7PM on the third floor of Hegeman to mark the installation of Textiles that Talk, an exhibition, with music and video, of East African Kangas, their proverbial inscriptions and hidden meanings.

Bard Chamber Singers and Bard Symphonic Chorus

Wednesday, May 7, 20148 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterCome hear the Bard Symphonic Chorus and Bard Chamber Singers as they perform music from the Renaissance period all the way up through the modern era! Led by the Graduate Choral Conductors under the tutelage of program director, James Bagwell, the choruses will perform music by standard repertory composers such as Palestrina, Mozart, Haydn, and Rheinberger. In addition, they will sing the music of more recent composers including Debussy, Vaughan Williams, Casals, and Gjeilo. This wonderful selection of works is sure to delight!

The Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra

Enjoy the Sound and Music of Ellington

Wednesday, May 7, 20148 pm

Olin HallThe Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra celebrates the music of Duke Ellington. One of the most influential composers and band leaders in the 20th century, Ellington would have been 115 this year.

This program draws from his Exotic song book entitled "Caravan," his song book of Romantic ballads "Sophisticated Ladies," and his song book of popular song "Satin Doll," with one exception, "Besame Mucho," written by Consuelo Valazquez.

Deviance Credits

Thursday, May 8, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Thursday, May 8, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Thursday, May 8, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Tim Rollins and K.O.S. in conversation with Wendy Tronrud

Thursday, May 8, 20145–7 pm

The collaborative history of Tim Rollins and K.O.S. began in 1981, when Rollins was recruited to teach at Intermediate School 52 in the South Bronx, developing a curriculum that used art as a means to knowledge and incorporated art-making with reading and writing lessons for students classified as “at risk” or learning disabled. By 1984, Rollins launched the Art and Knowledge Workshop in an abandoned school building, functioning as an after-school program with a group of his self-selected students. The teaching artist and his students soon began to call themselves Kids of Survival, or K.O.S., collaboratively producing paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture based on a critical engagement with classic Western literary texts. Exploring connections between literature and the complex social, political, and ideological factors that shaped the students’ daily lives in the South Bronx, the works created at this time include their now iconic interventions onto the pages of books, which are cut out and laid in a grid on canvas. Between the mid-1980s and early 1990s, Rollins and K.O.S. participated in two of the Whitney Museum Biennials, Documenta, and the Venice Biennale, and had solo shows at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Dia Art Foundation, amongst others. In 1994, they moved their operation to a studio in New York’s Chelsea arts district, where Rollins and long-term K.O.S. members rebuilt and expanded the project nationally and internationally, significantly increasing the number of workshops conducted with other schools and arts institutions. Thirty years after the group was first formed, there are active K.O.S. members working across the United States, and they continue to be exhibited worldwide, with their work is represented in public and private collections, including the Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art.

Wendy Tronrud is a teacher who is currently working on her doctorate in American Literature at the CUNY Grad Center. Her research focuses included 18th-early 20th Century African American literature, aesthetics, 19th-20th century poetry and she is busy working on a prison narrative from 1892. Presently, she teaches writing and literature courses at Queens College. In 2008, Wendy earned her Masters in Teaching Literature from Bard College after which she taught 9/10th grade Humanities for four years at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the South BronxSponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

with Szilvia Mikó, piano

Thursday, May 8, 20148 pm

Deviance Credits

Friday, May 9, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Friday, May 9, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Friday, May 9, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Philosophy Program Senior Project Conference

Friday, May 9, 201411 am – 5:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaSeventeen Philosophy Program seniors will present their Senior Projects on panels of three to four students. Each panel will be followed by a Q&A. Conference participants and attendees will be served lunch, and a brief reception will follow the conference.

Non-degree recital: Petra Elek, percussion

Friday, May 9, 20145 pm

Contemporaneous in Concert: Seeing Is Believing

Contemporaneous—a new music ensemble founded at Bard in 2010 and featuring Bard students and alumni/ae—performs a rare concert in Annandale.

Friday, May 9, 20147–9 pm

Room N211 (Jazz Room), Edith C. Blum Institute at the Milton and Sally Avery Arts CenterContemporaneous performs Seeing Is Believing, an unbelievable program of two new works by Michael Harrison and music by Nico Muhly and Shawn Jaeger.

Drawing on his expertise in just intonation, Indian ragas and rhythmic cycles, Harrison’s music evokes what the New York Times calls, “a new harmonic world…of vibrant sound.” With "Tessellations" and "Orchestral Modules," written specifically for Contemporaneous and featuring guests Nitin Mitta (tabla), Aaron Shragge (tanpura) and Tim Parsons (countertenor), Harrison brings to life a new chapter in his explorations into these exciting worlds.

with Szilvia Mikó, piano

Friday, May 9, 20148 pm

Deviance Credits

Saturday, May 10, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Saturday, May 10, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Saturday, May 10, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Degree Recital: Tamás Markovics, trombone

with Julia Hsu, piano

Saturday, May 10, 20142 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingTamas Markovics, bass trombonist, was born in Budapest, Hungary. Before coming to the United States, Tamas was a member of the King Saint Stephen Symphony Orchestra, one of Hungary's most promising orchestras. Tamas was accepted to Bard College Conservatory of Music in 2009, where he studies with Denson Paul Pollard. In 2011, he was the winner of the Conservatory's Concerto Competition and was offered the opportunity to play two solo concerts with the American Symphony Orchestra. Besides playing music in the Conservatory, Tamas is currently working on his Senior Project that will discuss the importance of solar energy in reducing air pollution in China.For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Degree Recital:Emma Schmiedecke, cello

with Erika Allen, piano

Saturday, May 10, 20148 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory BuildingCellist Emma Schmiedecke is a graduating senior at the Bard Conservatory of Music at Bard College where she studies with Peter Wiley, Luis Garcia-Renart and Sophie Shao as recipient of the George Martin-Hans Thatcher Clarke Scholarship for Cello. Most recently Emma was a visiting artist at The Banff Centre in Canada where she coached with composer John Corigliano on his Fancy on a Bach Air for Solo Cello which she performed on a retrospective concert of Corigliano’s works, opening The Banff Centre’s Music for a Summer Evening concert series. While at Banff, Emma also participated in chamber music performances with violinist Barry Shiffman and violist Steve Dann, and was the featured cellist on the recording of international opera/pop soprano Measha Brüggergosman’s forthcoming holiday album. Emma also attended the Oxford Cello School where she was the Christopher Bunting Scholar two years consecutively. As guest soloist Emma has performed with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic and the Bravura Philharmonic, and as a recitalist has appeared at Beattie Powers Place in Catskill, New York, as well as on various music series in New Jersey and on New Hampshire Public Television. Other appearances include recitals at the Richard B. Fisher Center with violinist Helena Baillie and violist Marka Gustavsson of Bach’s Goldberg Variations as transcribed for string trio, the preparation and presentation of which was filmed for the documentary Bach Among Us which has been seen worldwide.For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Deviance Credits

Sunday, May 11, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, May 11, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, May 11, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Degree Recital: Mayumi Tsuchida, piano

Sunday, May 11, 20145 pm

Degree Recital: Jiazhi Wang, violin

with Bálint Zsoldos, piano

Sunday, May 11, 20147 pm

Olin HallChinese native violinist Jiazhi Wang, has been playing violin since the age of four. Her father was her first teacher. In 2002, Jiazhi began her studies at the music school at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She received a scholarship for violin studies every semester, and was ranked as the best violinist of her class at the Central Conservatory of Music matriculation auditions in 2008. Jiazhi entered the Bard College Conservatory of Music in 2008, where she is currently studying violin with Weigang Li and Shmuel Ashkenasi. Her second major is Italian Studies. She has participated in numerous master classes and music festivals including the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival as a performing associate for Weigang Li. Her quartet at Bard has collaborated with Bill T. Jones Dance/Arnie Zane Dance Company. As an orchestra player, she has participated in Bowdoin Festival Orchestra as second violin section principal, Korean summer school orchestra as concertmaster under Maestro Nanse Gum, and as assistant concertmaster in New York String Orchestra Seminar under maestro Jaime Laredo in 2012. Jiazhi was a 3rd prize winner of China young artists competition in 2005, a winner of the Bard College Conservatory concerto competition in 2010 and semifinalist of the Sendai International Violin Competition in 2010, and she has performed as a soloist with China orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, and the American Symphony Orchestra. For more information, call 845-758-7196, or e-mail conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu.

Monday, May 12, 20142 pm

The Visitor Talks : Lia Gangitano

Monday, May 12, 20143–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1In 2001, Lia Gangitano founded PARTICIPANT INC, a not-for-profit art space, presenting exhibitions by Virgil Marti, Charles Atlas, Kathe Burkhart, Michel Auder, and Renée Green, among others. As former curator of Thread Waxing Space, NY, her exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Spectacular Optical (1998), Luther Price: Imitation of Life (1999), Børre Sæthre: Module for Mood (2000) and Sigalit Landau (2001). She is editor of Dead Flowers (2010) and the forthcoming anthology, The Alternative to What? Thread Waxing Space and the '90s. As an associate curator, she co-curated Dress Codes (1993) and Boston School (1995) for The ICA, Boston, and edited New Histories (with Steven Nelson, 1997) and Boston School (1995). She has contributed to publications including Renée Green, Endless Dreams and Time-based Streams, Lovett/Codagnone, Whitney Biennial 2006-Day for Night, and 2012 Whitney Biennial on Charles Atlas. She served as a Curatorial Advisor for MoMA PS1, with exhibitions including Lutz Bacher, My Secret Life (2009).

This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Pre-ambulation and Retrospection.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Degree recital: Peter Blaga, tuba

Wednesday, May 14, 20148 pm

Deviance Credits

Thursday, May 15, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Thursday, May 15, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Thursday, May 15, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Thursday, May 15, 20146 pm

Deviance Credits

Friday, May 16, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Friday, May 16, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Friday, May 16, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

with Hyanghyun Lee, piano

Friday, May 16, 20148 pm

Deviance Credits

Saturday, May 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Saturday, May 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Saturday, May 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

An Independent Book and Magazine Fair with Readings by Lydia Davis, Joan Retallack, and Others

Saturday, May 17, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hudson, NYBard literary journal Conjunctions will be featured at the Literary Magazine and Small Press Book Fair, taking place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 17, at the Hudson Opera House (327 Warren Street). Hundreds of books and magazines published by regional and national independent literary publishers will be on sale at bargain prices, with many publishers there to meet and greet—including Conjunctions.

At 5 p.m., the Marianne Courville Gallery (341-1/2 Warren Street) hosts readings by Lydia Davis, Joan Retallack, Nick Flynn, and Leslie Jamison, with a book signing and reception to follow. An incredible opportunity for an intimate event with these literary luminaries!

(Please note that the book-arts workshop referenced in the flier below has been canceled.)

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Residency Showing

Saturday, May 17, 20142 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA Theater

Followed by a discussion with the artists

The world-renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company culminates its annual creative residency at Bard with a showing and discussion of the company’s latest projects, including the reconstruction of duets Duets x 2 (1982), Just You (1993), and Shared Distance (1982).Sponsored by: Dance Program.

Degree Recital: Devony Smith, soprano

with Julia Hsu, piano

Saturday, May 17, 20146 pm

László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building

Soprano Devony Smith, a Northern California native, is a 2012 graduate of Pepperdine University, where she received her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance. At Pepperdine, Devony participated in both opera and theater productions, including the roles of Ilene Molloy in Hello Dolly, Meg March in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Mother Jones in The Kentucky Cycle, and chorus roles in La Boheme, Die Zauberflöte, and Sweeney Todd. In 2009 and 2011, Devony studied opera and German in Heidelberg, Germany, and participated in Songfest in 2010. She is currently a student of Edith Bers. Her favorite moments are spent outdoors—hiking, running, climbing and swimming.

Deviance Credits

Sunday, May 18, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, May 18, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, May 18, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For over a century Woodstock has been a home for creative people. Naturally, some were drawn to each other and a special type of relationship was created when both members of a couple were active artists. This exhibition includes works by sixteen Woodstock artists and was curated by eight students from a Bard College seminar about Woodstock art taught by art historian Tom Wolf. It offers a sense of the variety of styles and temperaments that flourished in the art colony through the unique perspective of artists who made their personal artistic statements while sharing their domestic lives.

The opening reception for this special exhibit will take place from 1:00-5:00 pm on Sunday, May 18th. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. The exhibit continues every Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm through July 6.

Tuesday, May 20, 20142:30 pm

Deviance Credits

Thursday, May 22, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Thursday, May 22, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Thursday, May 22, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Deviance Credits

Friday, May 23, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Friday, May 23, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Friday, May 23, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Deviance Credits

Saturday, May 24, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Saturday, May 24, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Saturday, May 24, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For over a century Woodstock has been a home for creative people. Naturally, some were drawn to each other and a special type of relationship was created when both members of a couple were active artists. This exhibition includes works by sixteen Woodstock artists and was curated by eight students from a Bard College seminar about Woodstock art taught by art historian Tom Wolf. It offers a sense of the variety of styles and temperaments that flourished in the art colony through the unique perspective of artists who made their personal artistic statements while sharing their domestic lives.

The opening reception for this special exhibit will take place from 1:00-5:00 pm on Sunday, May 18th. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. The exhibit continues every Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm through July 6.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Deviance Credits

Sunday, May 25, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of ArtThirteen exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Footnotes

Sunday, May 25, 201411 am – 6 pm

Hessel Museum of ArtOpening Reception Sunday April 13, 1-4Footnotes is an exercise in reading and re-reading the Marieluise Hessel Collection by the first year CCS Bard students which attempts to reveal the multiple logics that can be extrapolated from it. Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

2014 Spring Exhibitions and Projects

Sunday, May 25, 201411 am – 6 pm

CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of ArtThe Center for Curatorial Studies presents exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. The students have organized these exhibitions and projects as part of the requirements for the master of art’s degree.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For over a century Woodstock has been a home for creative people. Naturally, some were drawn to each other and a special type of relationship was created when both members of a couple were active artists. This exhibition includes works by sixteen Woodstock artists and was curated by eight students from a Bard College seminar about Woodstock art taught by art historian Tom Wolf. It offers a sense of the variety of styles and temperaments that flourished in the art colony through the unique perspective of artists who made their personal artistic statements while sharing their domestic lives.

The opening reception for this special exhibit will take place from 1:00-5:00 pm on Sunday, May 18th. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. The exhibit continues every Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm through July 6.

For over a century Woodstock has been a home for creative people. Naturally, some were drawn to each other and a special type of relationship was created when both members of a couple were active artists. This exhibition includes works by sixteen Woodstock artists and was curated by eight students from a Bard College seminar about Woodstock art taught by art historian Tom Wolf. It offers a sense of the variety of styles and temperaments that flourished in the art colony through the unique perspective of artists who made their personal artistic statements while sharing their domestic lives.

The opening reception for this special exhibit will take place from 1:00-5:00 pm on Sunday, May 18th. Refreshments will be served and the public is invited. The exhibit continues every Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm through July 6.